Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 2,500 acres in Orange County, Florida, in 1998. It was discovered on July 2, 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to July 24, 1998. The cause was recorded as misuse of fire by a minor.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,411 acres. Point of origin as reported, 28.530, -81.070.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,411 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1998
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 24, 1998
- Cause
- Human, Misuse of fire by a minor
- State
- Florida
- County
- Orange County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2851808104219980724
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_65140
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Florida in 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 39,000 | Jun 20, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 26,900 | Jun 20, 1998 | Natural |
| Holiday Fire | 24,602 | May 25, 1998 | Human |
| Oak Fire | 20,100 | Jun 2, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,753 | Jun 15, 1998 | Human |
| 27 Fire | 10,700 | Aug 1, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,560 | Jun 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,240 | Jun 24, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,621 | Feb 19, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,145 | Jul 1, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,052 | Mar 23, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,000 | Jun 30, 1998 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.